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Journey to the West
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What is often called the first Japanese embassy to Europe was actually a publicity stunt conceived in 1582 by Alexandro Valignano, the inspector of the Portuguese-sponsored Asian missions of the Society of Jesus. Four teenagers from Kyushu were paraded through Portugal, Spain, and Italy-performers and audience at the same time in a theatrical production designed to display the capabilities of the Japanese before influential circles of Catholic Europe while imbuing the Japanese with the idea o...
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A Vision Betrayed: The Jesuits in Japan and China, 1542-1742
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Japanese spirit, western things - 150 years after Commodore Perry.(Japan and the world)
The Economist (US)
; Learning the wrong lessons When America's black ships forced open Japan, nobody could have predicted that the two nations would become the world's great economic powers OPEN up. With that simple demand, Commodore Matthew Perry steamed into Japan's Edo (now Tokyo) Bay with his black ships of evil
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To arms; Japan.(Japan's security policy)
The Economist (US)
; Japan is starting to take its security responsibilities seriously. High time too JAPAN'S constitution forbids it to maintain an army: but it has 240,000 men under arms. They are not soldiers, you understand, but members of the land, sea and air self-defence forces . Japan does not have tanks--those
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Falling apples. (Japan's economic conditions) (Downbeat: A Survey of Japanese Finance)
The Economist (US)
; ISAAC NEWTON arrived in Japan in 1990. His presence has not proved a pretty sight in a country where too many people had concluded that the laws of gravity somehow did not apply to their own financial markets. Predictably, the apple has fallen. It is giving Japan, and the world, quite a bruise. On
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Behind the Maersk: with over 250 vessels and a network of 350 offices in 120 countries, Denmark's Maersk, part of the A. P. Moller Group, is the world's largest liner shipping company We asked Jorgen H. Madsen, president of Maersk K.K., about the company's operations in Japan. (Taking On Japan).(Brief Article)(Interview)
Look Japan
; LOOK JAPAN: When did Maersk start business in Japan? JORGEN H. MADSEN: The first Maersk Liner ship arrived in Japan from New York in 1928. Since then, Japan has been an important part of our liner network, which now provides global coverage. In 1947, we established our own organization in Japan. In
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Land of the rising consumer. (Japan's commercial policy) (editorial)
The Economist (US)
; Japan is poised to shed its remaining protection and inefficiencies-to make itself stronger BASHED, bothered and bludgeoned by America in their never-ending trade rows, Japan is set to adopt the most cunning ploy of all. It is going to give in, and do virtually everything that America is demanding
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Stronger samurai. (Japan's zooming defense budget)
The Economist (US)
; AMERICA and Japan may be sore with each other over trade, but their defence relations have rarely been better. America's new defence secretary, Mr Frank Carlucci, should get on like a comrade-in-arms with his equally new Japanese counterpart, Mr Tsutomu Kawara, whom he met in Washington on January
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Gavan McCormack: Client State: Japan in the American Embrace.(Book review)
Capital & Class
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Japanese ambassador reveals Japan's plans for economic revolution.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ A slumping Japan has decided that it must undergo an economic revolution to become less bureaucratic and more open to foreign businesses, says Kunihiko Saito, Japan's ambassador to the United States. ``We have come to the conclusion that it is in our own best interests he said.
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JAPAN IS OUR PARTNER IN PEACE
The Boston Globe
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